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People walk and ride bicycles along an embankment of the Moskva River on a warm summer day, after local authorities partially lifted quarantine restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Moscow, Russia June 6, 2020. Kirill Zykov/Moscow News Agency/Handout via REUTERS. MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 8,984 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours on Sunday, pushing the total number of ... Full story

To avoid being taken advantage of, we need to learn their ways — and learn some new techniques of our own to challenge what we see on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Reddit and Nextdoor. Whether you’re 16 or 60, spending a few seconds to do the things I list below can help keep you from becoming a tool in someone else’s information war. Help Desk: Ask our tech columnist a question. Just in the past week, the hashtag ... Full story

FILE PHOTO: Health Secretary Matt Hancock speaks during a daily briefing to update on the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain June 5, 2020. Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS. LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-racism protests attended by thousands of people in London and other major British cities “undoubtedly” risk causing an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases again, British health ... Full story

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australians who defied public health rules and rallied in support of the U.S. “Black Lives Matter” movement were reckless and self-indulgent, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: A woman wears a face mask as people protest in solidarity with those in the United States protesting police brutality and the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Sydney, Australia, June 2, 2020. ... Full story

(This story corrects June 6 version of story that said cases surpassed 7 million in heading and paragraph 1.). FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective face shields walk inside a park after few restrictions were lifted, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, May 31, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi. By Lisa Shumaker. (Reuters) - Global cases of the novel coronavirus neared 7 ... Full story

CBS News investigates policing in America. In a powerful video , Keke Palmer pleaded with National Guard troops to march with demonstrators during a George Floyd protest in Los Angeles on Tuesday. While the soldiers couldn't move from their post, they showed their solidarity in another way. As a crowd gathered around videotaping the scene, Palmer, co-host of the daytime talk show "Strahan, Sara and Keke," urged several National Guard members to ... Full story

Image caption The shark remained in the area for several hours before disappearing. A 3m (10ft) great white shark has killed a surfer in northern New South Wales, police in the Australian state have said. The shark bit the leg of the surfer, aged between 50 and 60, off Kingscliff, 800km (500 miles) north of Sydney. Several "heroic" boarders tried to help the man by fighting off the shark but although he was brought to the beach, he died there ... Full story

FILE PHOTO: Tablets of Avigan (generic name : Favipiravir), a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug in Japan and developed by drug maker Toyama Chemical Co, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Co. are displayed during a photo opportunity at Fujifilm's headquarters in Tokyo October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo. TOKYO (Reuters) - Fujifilm Holdings Corp’s ( ) research on Avigan as a potential treatment for COVID-19 may drag on until ... Full story